With its headquarters in Weybridge and offices across the globe, the FTSE 250-listed recruitment company Michael Page, part of PageGroup, is one of the region’s big success stories. It hasn’t forgotten its local market, as Ian Trevett discovered when he visited the regional Head Office in Guildford to meet Steve Howes, Operating Director for Michael Page Finance in the South East of England and Matt Jones, Associate Director for Guildford and Brighton.

One of the perks of working for an established recruitment company is that you get to see the best vacancies before anyone else. Recruitment has a reputation for being a tough sales environment, attracting ambitious professionals hungry for success, so when those plum job prospects appear in the inbox, who could blame them for taking advantage?